A fascinating interview has come online with Thor and X-Men: First Class penners Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz. Among other things, they discuss seeing their work on screen as well as not being asked to return to write Thor 2.

For all those who are interested in the writing process, take a look at this video courtesy of Collider.com. They have also provided a quick breakdown of what they discuss and the time signatures to jump to if you just want to catch certain questions and answers.

Our favorite parts are their discussion of how odd it was to see both films come out at the same time despite being written two years apart and their thoughts on Don Payne and Kenneth Branagh.

For those nerds out there, we get great descriptions of scenes in the screenplays that were deleted from the final cuts as well as aspects of both scripts that delve more into the characters of both worlds.

Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz

• :34 They talk about what it’s like to have two huge movies—Thor and X-Men: First Class coming out around the same time.
• 3:01 Did they all of a sudden have a ton of phone calls coming through once Thor opened big? They say it even started a little before the movie opened, but got more intense once it was released.
• 4:48 They had a project that they were sitting on until the week Thor came out, then they went around town to get it moving using Thor’s momentum.
• 5:20 Regarding Thor, what were they most hoping would work in the film that ended up working really well? They talk about working with Kenneth Branagh.
• 6:55 Talk about how they would’ve liked the stuff on Earth to have worked better.
• 9:00 They talk about what was cut out from the final film, and how the pacing works really well compared to other summer action movies.
• 10:29 With Don Payne being hired to write Thor 2, they talk about not being approached to write the sequel.
• 11:22 Their take on Kenneth Branagh not returning as director for the sequel.
• 14:57 What was the biggest surprise in X-Men: First Class of something that they weren’t sure would work but ended up being great? They talk about Jennifer Lawrence taking on Mystique and the rushed production schedule. They also say Rose Byrne’s character was originally much bigger in the script than in the finished film.